Since Vietnam
Subtitle: the United States in world affairs, 1973-1995
By: H.W. Brands.
Series: America in crisis
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Description: The story of American foreign relations since Vietnam is the story of how Americans came to terms - and, more frequently, failed to come to terms - with the muddy complexity of life in the late twentieth century. The aftereffects of Vietnam were one cause of the failures; American history and American politics were two others. Between the politics of reductionism and the yearning for simplicity, Americans after Vietnam had great difficulty accepting the complexity of the world they lived in.

Sometimes they overcame the difficulty; sometimes the difficulty overcame them. What follows is the tale of both outcomes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-177) and index.